Washing-machine



(No Model.)

B. 0. BREWER. WASHING MACHINE.

No. 520,408. Patented May 29, 1894.

Edward Gi i ewe];

UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD O. BREWER, OF BUTTE, MONTANA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 520,408, dated May 29,1894. Application filed May 20,1893. Serial No. 474,931- (No model.)

To 00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD G. BREWER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Butte city, in the county of Silver Bow and State ofMontana, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Founder, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in clothes pounders.

- The object of the present invention is to improve the construction ofclothes pounders, and to provide a simple and inexpensive one, which maybe readily secured to a tub or boiler and be adjusted to suit thequantity of clothes being washed, and which may be readily moved todifferent portions of the tub or body to enable all the clothes thereinto be operated on, thus insuring thorough and complete washing.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a clothes pounderconstructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a verticalsectional view of the clothes pounder. Fig. 3 is a reverse plan view ofthe same. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional View illustrating the vconnectionof the swiveled loop with the stem of the clamp.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawlngs. V

1 designates a conical shell or casing, provided intermediate of its topand bottom with a horizontal diaphragm 2, and having above the diaphragman annular series of openings 3 for the admission of air, which entersthe lower portion of the shell or casing through openings 4 of thehorizontal partition 2. The lower portion of the shell or casing isdivided into compartments by radial partitions 5, having their adjacentedges secured together and their upper and outer edges secured to thehorizontal diaphragm 2 and to the casing 1. A valve opening 4 isprovided for each compartment, and cooperating with it is a valve disk6, arranged on the lower face of the diaphragm for closing the valveopening and preventing the escape of air, when the plunger is forceddownward upon clothes being washed. The valve disk 6 is provided on itsupper face with a centrally arranged eye '7, which is engaged by an arm8 of a coiled spring 9, mounted on the upper face of the diaphragm. Theouter end of the arm is hooked for engaging the eye of the valve disk,and a downwardly opening valve, is thus formed for the admission or airwhen the pounder is lifted; and a similar valve is provided for each ofthe compartments of the lower portion'of the casing.

It will be apparent that the clothes pounder is adapted to force air andwater through the clothes for removing quickly the dirt and stainsthereof.

A vertical tubular socket 10 is mounted in the upper portion of theconical casing 1 and receives a stem or rod 11; and the socket has itslower end secured to the upper face of the horizontal diaphragm at thecenter thereof, and has its upper end secured to and extendedv beyondthe apex of the casing. The rod 11 is pivotally connected to anoperating lever 12 in an opening thereof; the opening extendslongitudinally of the operating lever and is arranged at the middlethereof and is formed by ofisetting or outwardly bending sections 13 and14 of the operating lever. The inner end of each of the sections 13 and14: of the operating lever is bent rectangularly as shown, and thesections 13 and 14 are secured together by rivets or other fasteningdevices at each end of the opening. The pivot 15 of the rod'of thepounder is arranged in openings of the sides of the longitudinal openingof the operating lever. One end of the operating lever is provided witha handle 16, and its other end is slidingly arranged in a loop or block17, having an opening receiving the lover. The lever is adapted to bemoved in and out through the opening of the block 17 to permit theclothes pounder to operate on all of the clothes to be washed by beingcarried from one position in or part of the boiler or body to another.The block is providedwith a'pivot 18, and is swiveled thereby to asleeve 19, which is adjustably mounted on a stem 20 of a clamp 21. Thesleeve 19 has an opening 22 in which is arranged a collar 23 providedwith a set screw 24 for engaging the stem and retaining the sleeve atany desired vertical adj ustment, to enable the clothes pounder to bearranged properly, relative to the quantity of clothes in a boiler ortub to be washed. The clamp consists of two depending rigid jaws, one ofwhich has a threaded opening receiving a clamping screw 25. By means ofthe clamp the clothes pounder may be readily applied to anyboiler ortub.

It will be readily seen that the clothes pounder is simple and effectivein operation, that it is adapted to be readily applied to an ordinarywash boiler or tub and arranged therein to suit the quantity of clothesto be washed, and that it may be readily moved from one part of a tub orboiler to another to enable all the clothes therein to be operated on.

Changes in the form, proportion and the minor details of constructionmay be resorted to without departingfrom the principle or sacrificingany of the advantages of this invention. 1

What I claim is- 1. The combination of a clothes pounder having a rod,an operating lever pivotally connected to the rod, avertioal stemprovided at its lower end with jaws adapted to receive the upper edge ofa boiler,'tub or the like, and a block swiveled to the stem andvertically adjustable thereon and provided with an opening adj ustablyreceiving the operating lever and permitting a sliding movement of thesame, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a vertical supporting stem provided at the lowerend wlth a clamp, a sleeve mounted on the stemand capable of verticaladjustment and provided with an opening, a collar arranged in theopening and provided with a clamping screw for securing the sleeve inits adjustment, a block swiveled to the sleeve and provided with anopening, an operating lever slidingly mounted in the opening, and aclothes pounder having a rod pivoted to the operating lever,substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixedmy signature 1n the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD O. BREWER.

